Species Companilactobacillus jidongensis

Name: Companilactobacillus jidongensis (Wei and Gu 2019) Zheng et al. 2020

Category, proposed as: species, comb. nov.

Basonym: Lactobacillus jidongensis Wei and Gu 2019

Etymology: ji.dong.en’sis. N.L. masc. adj. jidongensis, pertaining to Jidong, a county in the Heilongjiang province of China

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: kom-pa-ni-lak-to-ba-KIL-lus ji-don͡g-EN-sis, masculine

Type strain: 204-8; CCM 8900; KCTC 21133; LMG 31054; NCIMB 15159

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: MK110829 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Zheng J, Wittouck S, Salvetti E, Franz CMAP, Harris HMB, Mattarelli P, O'Toole PW, Pot B, Vandamme P, Walter J, et al. A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2782-2858. 🇮🇹

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4050-4060.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Lactobacillus jidongensis Wei and Gu 2019	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2026-08-13. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 0 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
  • 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of other species in the genus.
  • 🧍 The distinct name Companilactobacillus kedongensis from the same publication has a similar spelling. Publication: Angell RC, Freund GE, Willett P. Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure. Information Processing and Management 1983; 19:255-261.

Parent taxon: Companilactobacillus Zheng et al. 2020

Assigned by: Zheng J, Wittouck S, Salvetti E, Franz CMAP, Harris HMB, Mattarelli P, O'Toole PW, Pot B, Vandamme P, Walter J, et al. A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2782-2858. 🇮🇹

Linking: To permanently link to this page, use https://doi.org/10.83108/rn.10700Copy to clipboardLink copied to clipboard

Record number: 10700